" CHAPTER 15: RAIN OF STEEL CHAPTER 16: SCHWERPUNKT PART 4: BLOOD OATHS CHAPTER 17: STATE OF SIEGE CHAPTER 18: SCORPION STARE CHAPTER 19: ASYLUM Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. —John Harington (16th century) "

― Charles Stross , The Nightmare Stacks (Laundry Files, #7)